Man, girl charged in killing of girl's mom
Saturday, 22. August 2009, 20:22:11
Tracy Lynn Bellard didn't show up for work Friday. Her family owned and operated a local steakhouse that we featured as a great place to eat, Mimi G's. They are successful because each and everyone of her family are so nice to the people they serve. Tracy waited on us the last time we were there with our grand daughter.
Joseph Dewayne Douglas was charged Monday with murdering Tracy Lynn Bellard at her McDade home while her daughter watched.Tracy had previously filed a complaint with police saying Douglas had established a relationship with her underage daughter. He was subsequently charged with indecency with a child, harboring a runaway and criminal trespass and was released on bail.
Douglas' arrest affidavit states that his 13-year-old brother brought a .22-caliber rifle to Douglas at Bellard's home. Police did not say where the boy got the gun. The 13-year-old told police he saw Douglas shoot and kill Bellard in the presence of Bellard's daughter, the affidavit states.
The girl told investigators that she was present when Douglas shot her mother, the affidavit said. She said Douglas left her home in her mother's car. She said Douglas told her later that he had disposed of the body, the affidavit states.
In Texas, if three or more people see you commit a murder, you go straight to death row. Too bad one more person wasn't there.
Douglas took Tracy's body to his grandparents house, where he lived, and burned it. How did we guess this loser didn't have a place of his own?
Update:
There has been another twist in a shocking homicide in Bastrop County.
When investigators charged Joseph Douglas, 18, with murder in the death of the mother of his 14-year-old girlfriend, it didn't take long to realize that Douglas' troubled past goes back at least five years to a camp for emotionally disturbed boys known as Woodside Trails.
Jack Reynolds is now 41. Five years ago, he served as a camp counselor at Woodside Trails.
"We dealt with severely emotionally disturbed juvenile sex offenders out at Woodside trails," Reynolds said.
One of those kids was Douglas -- now 18 and accused of killing Tracy Lynn Bellard and burning her remains on his grandparents property in Bastrop County.
Five years ago, when Douglas was 13, he accused his in camp counselor of sexual abuse. That counselor was Reynolds, who learned on Tuesday that Douglas had been arrested and charged with murder.
Reynolds and the camp were cleared of all charges. Douglas had a history of making the same allegations about family members.
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Dacotah # 19. August 2009, 18:09
Anonymous # 21. August 2009, 00:33
My heart and prayers are with my family at this time and always. Words can not express nor begin to tell this story of pain. Know that I love you all so very much and I am here for all of you. Uncle Charles, Aunt YoYo, Denise, Wendy, I pray you can find all the strength and love to help you walk this path you now face yourself on. I am praying so very hard for you.
I love you all
Kellie Herndon Newman
claudette.bb # 21. August 2009, 09:27
MsBeHaven # 21. August 2009, 17:23
My prayers are with this family.
cwbywz # 21. August 2009, 17:28
Everyone loves your family. They have a lot of support. It is going to take a lot of time for them to heal from this but they have many people praying for them.
We know what it is like to lose someone in this way. Lenora's sister was murdered for $23.
Dacotah # 21. August 2009, 19:08
My prayers go out to you Mrs. Rick.
Anonymous # 22. August 2009, 05:00
I just found out about this. I've been trapped in the Ozarks for 8 years now and heard through the grapevine. I could not believe this. I worked for years with the family and had many a good and sometimes sad time with them. I still cannot believe this was the beautiful sweet baby that I would hold would grow up to do such a thing. All of my heart goes out to the family; Yoyo,Wendy, and all of the rest of you. This comes as a real low point in my life as it is, but if I could I would take your pain. There is no way I can. Tracy was a person I could say I loved and trusted, as did so many. The world will truely be a lesser place without her. I wish that I hadn't ever left the area after Grandma Jewel died, maybe I could have been for something, anything that could have changed this. I am so sorry for all that I have done and didn't do. Tracy was so special and loving, I don't remember ever having anything to say bad about anyone. She was a saint alone for what she had to go through with what she had deal with her son, much less anything else she did. Tracy you we be missed more than anyone here still on earth will know. But I know where you are, say hello to Grandma for me, will you? Love ya girl.
Anonymous # 29. August 2009, 11:37
"In Texas, if three or more people see you commit a murder, you go straight to death row. Too bad one more person wasn't there."
How the hell would killing him have made anything better, whatsoever? Death penalty is put in place by a society that'd rather kill off their problems than actually deal with them.
Disgusting.
cwbywz # 29. August 2009, 16:33
Now how would YOU deal with that little problem in your society?
After years of evaluation and appeals and more appeals he will probably be sentenced to death. This is done at a great cost to us while he gets to sit around and paint pictures or write books that he will sell and make millions on because everyone wants to see what goes on in such a dark twisted mind. All this time Tracy's family is living with her ghost. As long as that leach is alive, they will know he took their loved one and his life goes on.
So what to do with a monster that is known to put no value on a human life? Let him go to kill again? Keep him locked away for another eighty years with free board and medical? A colony where all of them could live together killing one another?
The cold fact is we just don't care and you wouldn't either. If it was the warm, caring life of your daughter that was taken from you, you would not care what happens to the man who took her life. Admit it!
Yes, we still have a more barbaric society. It is inherent by the very nature of the founding of the United States.
It wasn't pussy, lazy, holier-than-thou groups that came here and tamed this land. Have you ever personally talked to someone that help settle Denmark? No! Because it has been there since rocks were invented. I have pants as old as our country. Tell us how civilized your country was when it was 300 years old. That would be like, viking, right? And you criticize my views on how to treat murdering scum?
Maybe someday we will be as civilized as Japan but for now...
In Texas, if you kill someone... we kill you back!
Anonymous # 1. September 2009, 13:46
So, your excuse for society not picking up on this individual before he decided to blow someones brains out(Do you really think any person on their right mind would do that? Doesn't it at all seem interesting to you, that there might be underlying cause?) is that the US were founded by... Uh... Europeans? You went through the industrial revolution, and claim to be(at least to some extent) the pinnacle of western society, yet you still choose to uphold stupid principles as "an eye for an eye".
Texas seems like a pretty fucking scary place to me, at least, if you or anyone in your family get sick, your social security system will he... Oh wait... Nothing.
Anonymous # 1. September 2009, 13:49
^ That was me by the way ;). And I want to apologize for the harsh tone in my comments, it's me getting all worked up - that's not okay of course.
cwbywz # 1. September 2009, 17:43
I guess things would be better if we had good.... Social Security????? Hummm We should get right on that.
Seems you have issues beyond protecting murders. Sounds like you just hate Americans. I'm glad you have straightened up all the problems in Denmark and able to turn your concern to us. We should be fixed up in short order.
Just so you know... I didn't have an Industrial Revolution. I didn't settle America. I'm not European. I don't claim to be the Pinnacle of anything. I'm not on Social Security. I'm not a politician, I am just one vote.
I'm just a regular person, living in Texas that gets "all worked up" when people kill my friends. I can tell from your tone, it has never happened to you.